Sen. Wyden Issues Statement on Republican Health Care Proposal

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the congressional Republican's proposal on individual health care insurance:

"Instead of working on a bipartisan basis to improve Americans' health care, Republicans have embraced Trumpcare and its failed health care ideas of yesteryear.

"Between high-risk pools that isolate people with pre-existing conditions, junk insurance that will let insurance companies trample on consumers' rights and a massive and unprecedented restriction of a woman's right to choose in the private market, congressional Republicans laid out their ideological priorities that will limit access to health care and increase premiums.

"While Republicans have walked away from bipartisan compromise for now, there's still time to drop the poison pills and get to work on putting families first instead of allowing their premiums to skyrocket."